BEST VW Transporters at the NEC Caravan Camping and Motorhome show 2024
INCREDIBLE and Award Winning
I visited the NEC Birmingham Show ran by NCC Events with partners Caravan and Motorhome Club and The Camping and Caravanning Club.
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Campervans from these conversion companies
Ecowagen – https://www.ecowagon.co.uk
Knights Custom Campervan Conversions – https://knightscustomconversions.co.uk
Dirty Weekender – https://www.dirty-weekender.com
Bespoke
Bodans – https://www.bodans.co.uk
Sandbanks Paddleboard – https://www.sandbanksstyle.com/
Amazing & Award Winning VW Transporter
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Whether you have a T5, VW T5.1, T6, T6.1 or even an older T2, T2.5, T4, the VW Vanlife scene is amazing, with so much help and assistance available for whatever project you wish to attempt. Panel van, Kombi, Converted Camper or VW California Beach or Ocean, enjoy the freedom van life brings.
The @Staycation Lifestyle van conversion is coming along.
I bought a VW Transporter T6 Kombi Highline van 140bhp diesel SWB with tailgate.
I have lots more to do though, I have a new electrical system, using Victron components and a Lithium LIFEPO4 battery, so I obviously need to install some power devices. I have a new sound system, with Focal speakers and ibus 2.1 amp, Playstation PS4, which will be removable, TV’s on headrests.
Lots for me to look forward too and it would be nice to take you on the journey.
Vanlife is amazing, get out and explore, it’s a great adventure.
There are many great camper adventures to come
Thanks must go to the following:
https://titantransporters.co.uk – Sourcing my van, providing advice and soon a paint correction and detail
https://tamarcaravancentre.co.uk – Advising me with many of my leisure equipment purchases, including my Thetford toilet
https://www.dream-ice.co.uk – Quality advise on my sound system upgrade
https://plyworxuk.co.uk – Suppliers of my Halo roof and ply products
https://www.batteriesandsolar.co.uk – 1st class advice and guidance on my electrical system install
https://stitchesandsteel.com – Seat covers, carpet, roof straps, changing mat
Transporter HQ for my tailgate struts
Kiravans for my Swivel Seats
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Vanshades are fitted to several of these campervans and look great
Im a member of Devon & Cornwall Transporters. Have a look at the Facebook group and come along to meet the other friendly members
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25 Comments
There are so many designers out there now that they canbuild your van moure like a fabulous home all individually designed for 25.000 you provide your van or they get them for you at amazing prices and they are a lot cheaper than these mass produced ones which awful and boring and badly designed
More VWs 🥱🥱🥱🥱🥱🥱
Unless It got a toilet and shower, I'm not interested
Click bait… Nothing different here total waste of time
The designers of these things fit gadgets and frills to sell their product. They give no thought to actually using them. A tojlet is an essential piece of kit. I always wonder where you put your wet gear when it's not stopped p*ssing it down for 5 days in the arctic circle or N Scotland. I built my own lwb poptop with experience of 40 years in a canvas tent, toilet dry hanging area, double bed. Having travelled throughout europe incuding Iceland, Faroes even Wales I have found the most interesting places usually suffer from excess precipitation! We seldom see you tube videos showing set up in sh*te weather
The converters have been ripping the public off for years.
Just to give a perspective of how much more civilized these vw-vans used to be —–) https://youtu.be/ZafCU84I9_I
Thank you. Fabulous video. But we are biased as the one with the copper sink is ours. John, Katie and their team at Dirty Weekender have been fabulous to work with. We met them at the show in 2022 and were hooked on the idea of creating a bespoke van. They have listened to our ideas and made brilliant suggestions along the way. We trust them completely. It is our first ever van and we have even been abroad for the duration of the build doing design tweaks by message or phone call. Your video was the first time we saw the completed van which we have now picked up and tested on a very successful weekend. It’s clear from the comments that van choice and style are very personal. We wouldn’t dream of having a coach built van or anything bigger than the one we’ve got; but I understand why some might. Each to their own I guess. In the meantime, we are very happy with ours.
It really doesnt get better than the knights one absolutely amazing.
Way overpriced vw as usual and your paid by vw
They're basically all the same
I like the way the seat faces out towards the side door in the last van I didn’t realise you could do that in a transporter I think I have only seen it in crafters. I’d like to see how the pull out bed works.
What isn’t mentioned is the amp hour capacity of the lithium batteries, or how many watts the solar panels can produce. Inverter hobs are 2.2kw, and a typical solar panel maybe 150 watts. Big big difference. Also what happens to thr warranty when these small converters go bust, when people with £100k+ to spend go for bigger camper vans from more established manufacturers?
This is nuts these prices, I've been campervaning for over 4 decades and I can say with some authority that you do not need to spend this kind of money to go campervaning.
For example for £15-£18 k you can have a 2010 luxury spec Nissan Elgrand campervan with 250hp, 4×4, twin sliding electric doors, birds eye surround cameras, satnav, front and rear ac, etc etc, with about 40-50k miles and all you need for a fantastic camping trip. Then spend the £50 -60k you save by taking more time off work to go away in your van.
Its not rocket science kids, don't be fooled by this nonsense.
Of course there are alternatives from a £1 million Earth roamer camper to a tent and a £500 car.
You miss the point, In that you can have a brand new camper conversion in an Elgrand or Alphard for around the £18k mark and that includes the vehicle that come with between 250 & 289 bhp V6 , 4×4, luxury leather interior, twin powered doors and tailgate etc etc, with full service history 40-50k miles and are a better quality and reliability than the VW offering.
There is also a 'scene' for if you into that sort of thing, and if you are a boy racer then the 280bhp versions make mincemeat of any VW van on the road.
There is no logic in spending £80+k on a camper, its just daft, so daft in fact that Im mulling over some ideas on the back of decades campervaning experience for some 'must haves' to bring to market for the VW camper scene, as I want in on the action of liberating these types of their hard earned cash.
Each to their own I guess.
Stop talking like an AI ROBOT, it spoils the reviews.
One can stay in luxury hotels for years and that will come out cheaper than these type of expensive camper vans which does not even have proper toilet or shower
vw camper van the most overpriced vehicle in history
I will wait and buy a 5000 euro old 4×4 and convert it myself
VOLIO SAPERE QUANDO ARIVA UNA MACHINA AMIN
I own a T5 4motion and I’m a long serving VW fanboy having owned over a dozen of their vehicles over the last 20yrs, however these prices are an absolute joke. They’re vans not a coach built motorhome like a Hymer. The arse is falling out of this market and rightly so.
£140k for a VW camper 🤣🤦♂️
Is it just me or has the world gone mad?
its crashtested. thats the main point. because anything than this folds like a paper….
I think the pricetags on these vehicles are bonkers! I like that my small panel van is so simple and replaceble. It means I can go everywhere and not be afraid to get it dirty or damage a plastic spoiler.